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The following is a list of FridayLive! weekly webcasts and Member Exchanges. We look forward to being with you online!

Here's what folks say about our events:

“I love the way the TLT Group models great teaching and learning practices and new ideas. I especially like the "extermission" and allowing time for reflection "Have you learned anything that you think you will use?"
I like the focus on collaboration and the various ways that others are utilizing small collaborative groups. I am in the process of adapting the faculty-student collaboration to improve classes idea with a class I am teaching. I can't wait to see how it goes.” - Beth D, Individual Member

Please note that archives of previous sessions - listed below - are available to TLT Group Individual members.

NOTE: Login instructions for the session will be sent in the Registration Confirmation Email. Please check your Junk folder as sometimes these emails get trapped there. We will also send an additional login reminder 24 hours prior to the start of the event.

Better to Clothe the Emperor than Leap into the Chasm

We'll CONTINUE work on brief lists of important elements that differentiate among online courses, review an Open Letter/Resource draft, and invite TLT Group members to volunteer as additional writer/editors, and initial signatories.

The Open Letter/Resource draft is intended for TLT Group members and frequent participants in FridayLive! who are often called to help those just beginning online education. Especially those “beginners” who have previously succeeded in higher education, but lack the experience and background needed to recognize:

Oversimplifications and overgeneralizations about the harmfulness (or helpfulness) of online courses.

Well-designed and effectively-supported online courses.

Why? Because readers who are only beginning to consider online education may be misled by some introductory articles that focus on a narrow selection of students and online courses without acknowledging a wider variety of already-successful alternatives (e.g., Dynarski in NYT Jan, 2018 )

PARTIAL Solution: Perspective (Short Lists)

Based on experience and knowledge of the variety of purposes, structures, and online technologies in recent use for online courses, and the importance of other contextual elements, we offer a possible antidote: A BRIEF introduction to current options, hopes, and fears for online education in the form of 4 short lists.

1. Different Kinds of Online Courses (Maximum 10)

2A&B. Different Kinds of Online Learners and Teachers(Maximum 10 of each)

Courses and programs that have on-line or distance components have now existed long enough to have a history. Scholars and accrediting agencies are sincerely interested in promoting good practices that improve student learning. What are the good practices that have emerged, where did they come from, how are they implemented by individuals and by programs, and what are the interests taken by external agencies such as states and accreditors? David McCurry, Director of Distance Education at the University of South Carolina Upstate will be interviewed by Douglas Eder, emeritus assessment scholar and faculty member. Their conversation will cover these topics and more on the March 30 edition of FridayLive. Questions and comments from the audience are anticipated and encouraged.

Guest:David McCurry, Director of Distance Education at University of South Carolina Upstate

John Milam and 1-3 friends/co-conspirators discuss How ideas about higher ed from 40-100 years ago were similar to SOME ideas of "Open Education" in 2018... How something like CBE which is old and to many sounded like something intended to constrict individual learners and teachers, may be closer to recent thinking and programs to advance "Open Education"

PROVIDE PARTICIPANTS WITH AN IMPORTANT PERSPECTIVE. - BASED ON THOUGHTFUL, INFORMED REFLECTION AND ANALYSIS

IDENTIFY AND SUGGEST IMPLICATIONS, RECOMMENDATIONS, RESOURCES, STRATEGIES THAT EMERGE FROM THIS ANALYSIS, REFLECTION,